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The land around Fairview Pointe Claire (the parking lot between the old Sears and Reno Depot) will be converted into an expanded mall / residential complex between now and 2030 with the Reno Depot being demolished. The first step will be to demolish the Sears and build Simons in time for 2022. The initial city proposal can be found here (PDF): http://www.pointe-claire.ca/content/uploads/2016/05/Chapitre-4-Le-centre-ville_EN-projet.pdf

Where have I heard this before. Oh right......Square Childrens anyone?

Samcon. Great, it'll be poorly planned and look like a bunch of Soviet-era communist housing blocks. Hopefully the Plante administration will make good on their promises of insuring new projects have an adequate amount of green space, access to services, etc.

Want to know what this will look like when done? See Urbania Laval. Terrible.

If you want to make this type of development that boxes in the REM station, two things need to be done: 1) You need HIGH density for the area (15+ floors) immediately around the station to maximize the station's capacity 2) Provide a LARGE interim pay-per-use parking lot next to the station as the development is being built. Eventually, as the development phases are complete over 6-10 years, eliminate the parking lot or move it underground. That way, you get the most out of the station while waiting for the developers to build their units.

Cool concept but I always wonder how those flat glass roofs will feel once they're covered in a foot of snow.

Complete lack of imagination, Simcity-like boxed urban planning? Yup, that's Laval all right!

Every time I see this project I don't think of the builder, I think of the poor buyers who may have planned their lives around moving into a new condo unit that was due almost a year ago.

Considering how many of these pavers are being installed in ALL of Montreal's projects (Place Des Arts, Ste Catherine, etc.) this is extremely worrying.

First thing I thought when seeing this: along with Le Victoria, this is one big middle finger to CF's Quad Windsor. CF better step it up with their designs!

Really? The entire Olympic Park is rated JUST above Mount Royal Cemetery for things to do in Montreal on Trip Advisor. Well at least it beat a cemetery......

I really like this project. It reminds me of some developments I saw in Boston's Seaport District (which is like Griffintown, but developed properly).

Am I missing something? Why do we need to encroach upon one of the only large green spaces in that area when there's a ton of vacant land for development just south of the Met bordered by Roger Rousseau? I'm all for "green" development but this just seems counter-intuitive for this particular sector.

It isn't an assumption. Budge and Meloche are shown as accesses to the new boulevard. And no, buses on AF turn onto Chateau Pierrefonds.

The only way for buses to effectively get to the new boulevard is to go through smaller streets. For example; Budge, Antoine Faucon (after Chateau Pierrefonds), Meloche, etc. are all very quiet residential streets, not arteries designed to carry bus traffic to this new boulevard. I wasn't referring to car traffic but rather the increase in large buses passing down small streets.

Its cause folks on the West Island understand what this means for their residential streets. It means increased traffic which is the exact opposite of what the REM is supposed to accomplish. I'd be up in arms about that as well. Eliminating the need for cars intelligently is one thing. Doing so just for the heck of it without thought about the ramifications upon the existing network is an entirely different situation.

Which website does the link take you to? This is their official one: http://www.victoriasurleparc.com/ This is another one of those scammy mini-sites that are being set up by real estate brokers to mark-up prices on units they reserve before the pre-sale: https://www.victoriasurleparcvip.com

Yeah, there's something really off about that rendering....

People seem to forget that these proposed bus route extensions go through smaller residential streets. That right there is a major hazard.

LOL, detour signs. How Montreal is that?

This may be the most idiotic, short-sighted thing I have seen this administration do yet. It has been proven again and again, in city after city that you cannot force a suburban population (and that's what the West Island is) to take public transport by restricting car access to transport hubs. Due to the lower density of these areas, people have to walk way to far in most cases to get to a bus station. Putting your head in the sand and making believe people will just stop using cars is completely at odds with every lesson of urban development. To make matters worse, it sounds like they are blocking off the REM station from car access altogether. What that means is people who want to drop off passengers there can't do so. This alone will reduce the efficacy of the Kirkland station. And all this development for bikes? Come on. Its like someone forgot that Montreal is in "freeze your nuts off" mode for 6 months of the year. Not only that but it looks like there has been no provision built into this proposal to extend the service road between Kirkland and Morgan while the Chemin Ste Marie overpass won't be optimized for two-way traffic and cyclists. Rather, they'll be spending millions on a cyclist-exclusive overpass. The ridiculousness just doesn't stop.... There's a prime opportunity here to avoid gridlock on St Charles which would in effect reduce greenhouse gasses from cars sitting idle. Meanwhile, there will be a whole street dedicated to buses while St Charles will remain a traffic nightmare.

I'm wondering what they consider an "international conference". I ask because shows / conferences in Vegas like CES (~190,000 attendees) and NAB (~110,000 attendees) alone eclipse the Montreal attendance figure (~250,000). IMO, its not the NUMBER of conferences we have that matters; its the number of attendees.

#1 All the way. Though I really don't understand the associative inspiration images and how they made an impact on the design....

Interesting. But one look at the disaster that's Griffintown would have likely caused the selection committee to run in the other direction. Also, its absolutely shocking to see how much prime downtown space the city was willing to give up for a single campus.

This thread really is a case study in why I've been calling for developers to be penalized if they build UNDER the zoned height limit. The number of 150M+ zones in downtown Montreal is dwindling at a pretty rapid pace. Without rezoning (good luck with that!) for higher density, Montreal could very well run out of these zones as developers eat them up with smaller-than-necessary construction.